24 April 2009

Kenyan Gays Demand Protection After Brutal Assault at Nairobi Bar

Kenya's growing LGBT community demands more police protection after a lesbian was brutally assaulted at a Nairobi nightclub, reports Behind the Mask. The victim says club security refused to protect her and actually shielded the gay-basher.

[The victim] and a friend were leaving the Madhouse when a woman shouted out behind them 'Ma lesbians (you lesbians).' She turned around to address the woman and got into a verbal
confrontation, which ended up with the woman attacking and hitting her with a bag. "I found that she was being hidden in the changing rooms by the bouncers. I asked why they were hiding her? That is when
the woman hit me with a bottle across the face,' [the victim] said."

Bleeding heavily [the victim] was driven to Central Police Station by her
friend. She suffered a serious injury in the head and was later admitted
at Nairobi Hospital. The woman who attacked her was arrested."

Thankfully several club patrons intervened to help or else the victim may have been seriously injured. No word if the attacker or the bouncers were charged.